OpenAI CEO Altman prerecorded video claimed AGI was solved on July 31, 2025, at around 6:33 AM GMT. However, the statement was about a European data center which does not have all of its power issues worked out and is far smaller than existing AI data centers by XAI and others.
Hyping his data center agreement which was exaggerated. Exaggerated empty superintelligence. What they were actually talking about 10K B300s in a few months (building and 20MW power, and install the chips). They will have 230 MW and another 90K chips 2026 maybe)
10K is 10% of the number XAI Grok 3 GPUs colossus 1 end of 2024, but with 7X better than H100 B300 chips.
75K H100 equivalents in a few months. 750K H100 equivalent end of 2026.
XAI Colossus 1 already has had 400K H100 equivalent 2 months ago. XAI Colossus 2 has 2.7 million H100 equivalents now and will have 5-6 million H100 equivalents by end of 2025. OpenAI Norway is over 2 years behind XAI.
10,000 B300s is about 300 Exaflops. There is 30 petaflops (50% more than a B200) per Nvidia B300. Getting to 100,000 B300s would be 3,000 Exaflops. Every builder except XAI has had trouble getting more than 30,000 Nvidia GPUs to work together with on unified (coherent) memory which is needed for effective AI pre-training.
Sam repeats OpenAI’s progress toward AGI but emphasizes a pivot to superintelligence. He talks about the need for massive physical infrastructure (e.g., chips, servers, cables, and energy) to make it a reality. OpenAI’s official announcement of Stargate Norway a new AI data center project in the Narvik region of northern Norway.
Stargate Norway will be OpenAI’s first major data center in Europe. It will eventually have a 100K GPU supercluster built in partnership with Nscale (a London-based data center firm). Norway has cheap hydroelectric power. They expect 100,000 Nvidia GPUs (graphics processing units) by the end of 2026, with potential for further expansion. It is a $1-billion facility and really needs about $3-4 billion to get to 100,000 GPUs and $6-8 billion for 200,000 GPUs. The centre is to be built near Narvik in northern Norway. Nscale and Aker will jointly own Stargate Norway with 50% stakes each, investing about $1 billion for the initial phase of the project, which will consume about 20 megawatts of electrical power capacity and have OpenAI as its first customer. Aker said it was working with local power producer Nordkraft to secure access to enough electricity to allow Stargate to increase its consumption to 230 MW and eventually add a further 290 MW. They will use B300s. 20 Megawatts only allows about 10,000 chips to be powered up.
Stargate Norway is planned to eventually have 230MW of capacity and then expand by an additional 290MW. The power needed for the chips is not there yet. XAI has already installed 550,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs in Memphis Colossus 2 and has 230,000 (H100,H200 and B200) at Colossus 1 Data Center. XAI Colussus 2 needs about 1 gigawatt of power.
The July 31 speech and Stargate Norway announcement don’t mention GPT-5 explicitly. The focus is on data center scaling challenges for superintelligence, implying that models like GPT-5 (if already released or in testing) are stepping stones. The focus is compute infrastructure rather than algorithmic breakthroughs.
Two months ago Sam talked about the Gentle Singularity.
SAM ALTMAN BELIEVES AGI IS SOLVED
“So now we're starting to look ahead to superintelligence.”
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January 21, 2025: The Stargate Project, a US-based venture to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure, was formally announced, with OpenAI as a key partner alongside SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX. Not all of the money has been raised and it is a multi-year project.
May 16, 2025: Plans for Stargate UAE, a large-scale data center in the United Arab Emirates, were announced, expected to open in 2026.
July 22, 2025: OpenAI and Oracle announced partnership to add 4.5 gigawatts of Stargate data center capacity in the US.
There is a clear fundraising angle. OpenAI has raised billions but needs trillions for superintelligence-scale compute.
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“Looking ahead to super intelligence” in no way implies they have solved it. This post seems like off-target competition bashing to push XAI.
It’s certainly possible that creating hype is a self-fulfilling prophecy, creating the catalysts that will bring about one’s desires. It might seem silly, but the potential is always there.
More or less 10 years ago it was believed that human brain computes at 1 ExaFLOPS. These numbers of the AI companies are overwhelming